Baltimore teens take out the Garbage
Youth battle a waste incinerator. It is the threat of dangerous air pollution that has pupils at Curtis Bay’s Benjamin Franklin High School leaving the classroom and showing in the streets of Baltimore. In Curtis Bay, a neglected waterfront neighborhood in the northwestern fringes of Baltimore, an alliance of environmental activists and local groups–such as an energetic and inventive group of high school students–has succeeded in holding off the construction of an great trash incinerator project. The pupils wowed members…